[EL] What a Shock!

JBoppjr at aol.com JBoppjr at aol.com
Wed Apr 9 12:32:44 PDT 2014


As I have explained, which started this all, "reformers" want to use  
campaign finance laws to shut up their opponents so they can get their liberal  
agenda through.  Comments by them after McCutcheon have made this crystal  
clear, as well as has Breyer's dissent.  So I am not at all surprised that  
they want to shut me up too.  Many people think that disagreeing with  them is 
disagreeable.
 
Rick, I am glad you may not be in that camp.  Jim Bopp
 
 
In a message dated 4/9/2014 2:47:55 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
rhasen at law.uci.edu writes:

Jim,

If I really wanted to discourage you from commenting  about my views on the 
listserv, I would have removed you from the listserv,  which many people 
have been urging me to do for your lack of civility for some  time.

(More emails to that effect came in today.  A few choice  quotes: "I’d move 
to get rid of Jim Bopp from the list-serve.  ....  It’s tiresome.  He 
clearly can’t disagree without being  disagreeable.  Let him find another forum 
for his snark.  I’d prefer  not to get any more emails from him.  And I don’
t even necessarily  disagree with some of his positions.  I can’t be alone 
in this  assessment."  "Just  curious, is there a way to tone down the 
constant snark/invective he (and many  of the CCP folks) constantly post?  It is 
ironic because, even as a  reformer, I could take their arguments more 
seriously if they weren’t so  obnoxious.").

Instead, despite your intemperate comments on the  listserv I have engaged 
with you, just like I have debated Brad Smith and  Floyd Abrams with whom I 
also disagree.

Rick

On 4/9/14, 10:48 AM, _JBoppjr at aol.com_ (mailto:JBoppjr at aol.com)  wrote:


Fair enough.  I have no interest in long  debates either but it is also 
true that these fundamentally different world  views continue to be advocated 
for and currently debated.
 
  I thought I raised a new twist on it in my post, in  response to yours, 
which is the fact that reformers regularly make dire  predictions that almost 
never come true.  Your post wants to hold the  "deregulators" into account 
for their predictions and I was simply holding  "reformers" to the same.  
Their predictions about CU were  wrong, they should be held in account for it 
and as a result their  current predictions should be viewed with more 
skepticism.
 
    But of course you and anyone is free not to  defend their opinions if 
they choose. But that won't discourage me from  commenting on them, which 
honestly is what I think you are trying to  do.  Jim Bopp
 
PS And I seriously doubt that anyone would think that you would agree  with 
even my non-outlandish and non-snarky statements.
 
 
In a message dated 4/9/2014 1:16:03 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
_rhasen at law.uci.edu_ (mailto:rhasen at law.uci.edu)  writes:

Jim,

We have fundamentally different world views as well  as assessments of the 
empirical evidence.  We have had a number of  exchanges on the list and 
elsewhere over the years about these conflicting  normative views and views of 
the evidence, and I don't think that  repeating that debate on the listserv 
would be a good use of anyone's  time. It is not that I don't think you are 
unworthy of debate. It is that  it all has been said before. I am not sure if 
our CATO live debate from a  few years ago is still on the Internet.  I'd 
be happy to reprise that  debate at some point in the future. But back and 
forth sniping on the  listserv seems a waste of time.

The fullest explication of my views  on campaign finance appears in my 2003 
book, The Supreme Court and  Election Law.  You can read the chapter on 
campaign finance if  you want to understand my full views---though they have 
evolved in some  significant ways since then. I am planning likely another 
book length  treatment to make my full case for a political equality view of 
the First  Amendment---one which differs, by the way, from Justice Breyer's 
dissent  in some important ways. I hope when I can make my sustained argument 
it  will convince many people who might be on the fence on these issues.   I 
certainly don't expect it to convince you even in a book length  treatment 
(much less in a short listserv response).

Of course my  views expressed on the blog or elsewhere are fair targets for 
you, and you  can respond however you wish. The reason I posted a short 
note in response  to you was that I did not want to leave anyone new to the 
list with the  impression that I agreed with your outlandish and snarky 
statements.   Beyond that, you have new lawsuits to bring (and many to win,  
unfortunately in my view) and I have a book to  write.


Rick





On 4/9/14, 10:03 AM, _JBoppjr at aol.com_ (mailto:JBoppjr at aol.com)   wrote:


Well then I will await your much larger work anxiously. I  can raise 
questions about your posts and you defend yourself  by citing "larger works."
 
You have said repeatedly, when you occasionally respond to one of  my 
posts, that  "I'm not going to get into another long debate with  you on the 
internet." I don't know if you think I am just not worthy of  debating you or 
you don't want to debate in public so others can  evaluate your arguments. Or 
perhaps you prefer just to express your  opinions everyday but are above 
defending them. The Oracles of Delphi  felt the same way.  Either way it is an 
odd brush off by  someone with so many opinions and one who so aggressively 
puts them out  to the public. But I guess some are just too good to be 
soiled by debate  with us commoners.  
 
Oh, and by the way, just because I responded I am still "not going  to get 
into another long debate with you on the internet."  How  about a short 
debate instead? I have more lawsuits to work  on. Jim Bopp
 
 
In a message dated 4/9/2014 11:18:12 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
_rhasen at law.uci.edu_ (mailto:rhasen at law.uci.edu)  writes:

Jim,
I'm not going to get into another long debate with  you on the internet. 
But depending upon how one defines the problem,  the sky actually is already 
falling, and the election of Obama does  not prove that the system is 
working.  I've made a number of  points about the problem of legislative skew in 
this piece 
(http://www.stanfordlawreview.org/print/article/lobbying-rent-seeking-and-constitution)  and I've begun work on a much larger work which will 
eventually  respond to these points.
Rick

On 4/9/14, 5:55 AM, _JBoppjr at aol.com_ (mailto:JBoppjr at aol.com)  wrote:


Regarding Rick's comment under "What a Shock!:"
 
P.S. Someone should collect all the statements from the  deregulationists 
who said getting rid of aggregate limits is no big  deal and it wouldn’t lead 
to multi-million dollar checks and the  emergence of soft money.
 
I would but my hard drive is already full of all the  Chicken Little claims 
of imminent doom by the campaign finance  "reformers" after almost every 
Court decision since  Buckley. 
 
Just to mention one, Citizens United was decided in  2010.  The Chicken 
Littles said that corporations would own all  the politicians.  Obama was 
reelected in 2012.  Was he  owned by corporations?  Opps.  And the Chicken 
Littles  have not even apologized to Obama.  They just press on with  more dire 
predictions.  Jim Bopp
 
 
In a message dated 4/8/2014 11:47:01 P.M. Eastern Daylight  Time, 
_rhasen at law.uci.edu_ (mailto:rhasen at law.uci.edu)  writes:



_Tom Edsall on McCutcheon_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60250)  
 
Posted on _April 8, 2014 8:27  pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60250)  
by  _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   

 
_Important NYT opinion column_ 
(http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/09/opinion/the-high-cost-of-free-speech.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss) . 
Tom links to my SCOTUSBlog post, “_Does the Chief Justice not Understand  
Politics, or Does He Understand it all too Well?_ 
(http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/04/symposium-does-the-chief-justice-not-understand-politics-or-does-he-u
nderstand-it-all-too-well/) “ 
It’s not every day I’m called more cynical than Richard  Posner. 
 
 
(http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60250&title=Tom%20Edsall%20on%20McCutcheon&description=) 


Posted  in _campaign finance_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10) , 
_Supreme Court_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29)   
_“Miss. preparing to use new voter ID  law”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60247)  
 
Posted on _April 8, 2014 8:00  pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60247)  
by  _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   

 
_Gannett reports._ 
(http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20140408/NEWS01/304080033/Miss-preparing-use-new-voter-ID-law)  
 
 
(http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60247&title=“Miss.%20preparing%20to%20use%20new%20voter%20ID%20law”
&description=) 


Posted  in _election administration_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18) , 
_The Voting Wars_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60)   
_“Blacks and Early Voting, in Ohio and  Wisconsin”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60245)  
 
Posted on _April 8, 2014 7:56  pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60245)  
by  _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   

 
_NYT letter to the editor_ 
(http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/09/opinion/blacks-and-early-voting-in-ohio-and-wisconsin.html?ref=opinion)  from NAACP  Ohio 
and Wisconsin leaders. 
 
 
(http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60245&title=“Blacks%20and%20Early%20Voting,%20in%20Ohio%20and%20Wisconsin”
&description=) 


Posted  in _election administration_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18) , 
_The Voting Wars_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60) , _voter 
registration_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=37)   
_NYT Letters to the Editor on David Brooks  McCutcheon Column_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60243)  
 
Posted on _April 8, 2014 7:55  pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60243)  
by  _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   

 
_Here._ 
(http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/09/opinion/money-politics-and-the-justices.html?ref=opinion)  
 
 
(http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60243&title=NYT%20Letters%20to%20the%20Editor%20on%20David%20Brooks%20McCutcheon%
20Column&description=) 


Posted  in _campaign finance_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10) , 
_Supreme Court_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29)   
_How Low Will Dick Morris Go?_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60241)   
 
Posted on _April 8, 2014 7:53  pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60241)  
by  _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   

 
_This low._ 
(http://thehill.com/opinion/dick-morris/203019-dick-morris-investigate-2012-vote-fraud)  
Didn’t realize he was a member of the fraudulent fraud  squad. 
 
 
(http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60241&title=How%20Low%20Will%20Dick%20Morris%20Go?&description=) 


Posted  in _fraudulent fraud squad_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=8) , 
_The Voting Wars_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60)   
_What a Shock!: “John Roberts Gets the  Parties Started”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60239)  
 
Posted on _April 8, 2014 7:43  pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60239)  
by  _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   

 
_Politico reports:_ 
(http://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/john-roberts-supreme-court-mccutcheon-republican-party-105503.html)  
Insiders are dreaming up how to maximize a recent Supreme  Court ruling 
that frees up some big donors to give even  more. 
A prominent idea: create a new class of donors  who contribute a total of 
six- or seven-figures to each of three  party committees and spread cash to 
endangered lawmakers. In  exchange, the big-money givers would get something 
of an “all  access pass” that comes with perks from the big three national  
committees, like face time with top officials.
Of course Roberts told us that this wouldn’t happen, or that  the FEC or 
Congress would easily fix it.
_Yeah right._ 
(http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/04/symposium-does-the-chief-justice-not-understand-politics-or-does-he-understand-it-all-too-well/) 
And don’t delude yourselves. Many Democratic party operatives  are 
delighted with McCutcheon.
P.S. Someone should collect all the statements from the  deregulationists 
who said getting rid of aggregate limits is no  big deal and it wouldn’t lead 
to multi-million dollar checks and  the emergence of soft money.
 
 
(http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60239&title=What%20a%20Shock!:%20“John%20Roberts%20Gets%20the%20Parties%20Started
”&description=) 


Posted  in _campaign finance_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10) , 
_Supreme Court_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29)   
_Two Panels on Voting Rights May 2 at LA Law  Library as Part of Law Week_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60236)  
 
Posted on _April 8, 2014 7:00  pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60236)  
by  _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   

 
Looking forward to participating in this: 
 (http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/Law_Week_Flyer_Friday.png)  
 
 
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ry%20as%20Part%20of%20Law%20Week&description=) 


Posted  in _voting_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=31) , _Voting Rights 
Act_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15)   
_“Government Brief Cites McCutcheon Case In  Defending FEC’s Requirements 
for PACs”_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60234)  
 
Posted on _April 8, 2014 6:51  pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60234)  
by  _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   

 
_Bloomberg BNA_ 
(http://news.bna.com/mpdm/MPDMWB/split_display.adp?fedfid=44415475&vname=mpebulallissues&jd=a0e8w1u4z2&split=0) : “Supreme Court  
precedents, including the court’s most recent campaign finance  ruling in 
McCutcheon v. Fed. Election Comm’n, consistently have  supported requirements for 
public disclosure of campaign money,  government attorneys argued in a 
_brief_ (http://www.fec.gov/law/litigation/freespeech_fec_opp_brief.pdf)  filed 
with the high  court (Free Speech v. FEC, U.S., No. 13-772, brief filed  
4/4/14).” 
 
 
(http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60234&title=“
Government%20Brief%20Cites%20McCutcheon%20Case%20In%20Defending%20FEC’s%20Requirements%20for%20PACs”&description=) 


Posted  in _campaign finance_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10) , 
_Supreme Court_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29)   
_“How to Clean Up American Elections”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60232)   
 
Posted on _April 8, 2014 6:46  pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60232)  
by  _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   

 
_Ganesh Sitaraman writes_ 
(http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/04/clean-up-elections-with-peoples-pledge-105492.html#.U0SlbMeT6N8)  for  
Politico. 
 
 
(http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60232&title=“How%20to%20Clean%20Up%20American%20Elections”&description=) 


Posted  in _campaign finance_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10) , 
_Supreme Court_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29)   
_“RNC chairman: Strike down all contribution  limits”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60230)  
 
Posted on _April 8, 2014 6:44  pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60230)  
by  _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   

 
_That’s _ 
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/04/08/rnc-chairman-strike-down-all-contribution-limits/) more like it. 
 
 
(http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60230&title=“RNC%20chairman:%20Strike%20down%20all%20contribution%20limits”
&description=) 


Posted  in _campaign finance_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10) , 
_Supreme Court_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29)   
_“Stay issued on subpoenas in NC election  law case “_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60228)  
 
Posted on _April 8, 2014 1:31  pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60228)  
by  _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   

 
_AP reports._ 
(http://www.news-record.com/news/north_carolina_ap/article_451dc9df-0dcb-58c2-9fb5-8b87ed1d86b9.html)  
 
 
(http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60228&title=“Stay%20issued%20on%20subpoenas%20in%20NC%20election%20law%20case%20“
&description=) 


Posted  in _The Voting Wars_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60)   
_“The Hounding of Brendan Eich Gives New  Cover to Defenders of Dark Money”
_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60226)  
 
Posted on _April 8, 2014 1:30  pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60226)  
by  _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   

 
_Important piece_ 
(http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117307/brendan-eichs-resignation-mozilla-gives-new-cover-dark-money)  from Alec  MacGillis. 
 
 
(http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60226&title=“
The%20Hounding%20of%20Brendan%20Eich%20Gives%20New%20Cover%20to%20Defenders%20of%20Dark%20Money”&description=) 


Posted  in _campaign finance_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10) , 
_Supreme Court_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29)   
_“McConnell Doubts Individual Campaign  Finance Limits Will Go Away”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60224)  
 
Posted on _April 8, 2014 1:20  pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60224)  
by  _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   

 
_Roll Call reports_ 
(http://blogs.rollcall.com/wgdb/mcconnell-doubts-individual-campaign-finance-limits-will-go-away/) .  I don’t think  he’s the only 
one calling the shots on this though. 
 
 
(http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60224&title=“
McConnell%20Doubts%20Individual%20Campaign%20Finance%20Limits%20Will%20Go%20Away”&description=) 


Posted  in _campaign finance_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10) , 
_Supreme Court_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29)   
_Demos Explainer on McCutcheon_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60222)   
 
Posted on _April 8, 2014 1:03  pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60222)  
by  _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   

 
_Guide for the Perplexed._ 
(http://www.demos.org/publication/what-mccutcheon-v-fec)  
 
 
(http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60222&title=Demos%20Explainer%20on%20McCutcheon&description=) 


Posted  in _campaign finance_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10) , 
_Supreme Court_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29)   
_“Judge Rules Delaware Disclosure Law  Unconstitutional”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60220)  
 
Posted on _April 8, 2014  12:58 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60220)  
by  _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   

 
_CCP: _ 
(http://www.campaignfreedom.org/2014/04/08/judge-rules-delaware-disclosure-law-unconstitutional/) “A federal court today _issued an order_ 
(http://www.campaignfreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/SLR-Order-08apr20141.p
df)  _barring enforcement_ 
(http://www.campaignfreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Order-Granting-MPI.pdf)  of a recently  adopted Delaware law that 
would have forced a group that publishes  non-partisan voter guides to 
violate its members’ privacy.” 
 
 
(http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60220&title=“Judge%20Rules%20Delaware%20Disclosure%20Law%20Unconstitutional”
&description=) 


Posted  in _campaign finance_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10)   
_“Rich People Will Always Beat Campaign  Finance Restrictions”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60218)  
 
Posted on _April 8, 2014  12:55 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60218)  
by  _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   

 
_Steve Chapman _ 
(http://reason.com/archives/2014/04/07/rich-people-will-always-beat-campaign-fi) writes for  Reason. 
 
 
(http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60218&title=“
Rich%20People%20Will%20Always%20Beat%20Campaign%20Finance%20Restrictions”&description=) 


Posted  in _campaign finance_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10) , 
_Supreme Court_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29)   
_“Shelby and Section 3: Pulling the Voting  Rights Act’s Pocket Trigger to 
Protect Voting Rights after Shelby  County v. Holder”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60216)  
 
Posted on _April 8, 2014  12:51 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60216)  
by  _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   

 
Paul Wiley has posted_ this draft student note_ 
(http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2421605)  on SSRN  (forthcoming, Washington and Lee 
Law Review).  Here  is the abstract: 
The Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County v. Holder  presents voting 
rights advocates with a difficult challenge:  finding an effective substitute 
for the preclearance regime  struck down by the Court. The best possible 
alternative may live  within the Voting Rights Act itself in Section 3(c)’s “
pocket  trigger.” Section 3(c) permits a federal court to retain  
jurisdiction and preclear a jurisdiction’s changes to its voting  procedures upon a 
finding of a constitutional violation. By  relating more closely to current 
conditions in a specific  locality, Section 3(c) preclearance avoids many of 
the problems  the Court identified in NAMUDNO and Shelby County. 
This Note analyzes the history of Voting Rights Act  litigation and 
suggests a more expansive use of Section 3(c)  preclearance to continue federal 
oversight of election  procedures.
 
 
(http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60216&title=“Shelby%20and%20Section%203:%20Pulling%20the%20Voting%20Rights%20Act’
s%20Pocket%20Trigger%20to%20Protect%
20Voting%20Rights%20after%20Shelby%20County%20v.%20Holder”&description=) 


Posted  in _Supreme Court_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29) , _Voting 
Rights Act_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15) , _VRAA_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=81)   
_All My McCutcheon Commentary in One  Place_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60214)  
 
Posted on _April 8, 2014  10:47 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60214)  
by  _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   

 
_Courtesy_ (http://www.law.uci.edu/news/faculty/hasen_040214.html)  of 
@UCILaw: 
    *   _The Guardian_ 
(http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/08/supreme-court-fight-for-voting-rights)   
    *   _Daily Journal (PDF)_ 
(http://www.law.uci.edu/news/in-the-news/2014/djournal_hasen_040814.pdf)   
    *   _Reuters_ 
(http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/04/07/opening-the-political-money-chutes/)   
    *   _SCOTUSBlog_ 
(http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/04/symposium-does-the-chief-justice-not-understand-politics-or-does-he-understand-it-all-too-well/)
   
    *   _Slate_ (http://slate.me/1oqLlN0)  
 
 
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Posted  in _campaign finance_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10) , 
_Supreme Court_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29)   
_“McCutcheon and Corruption in America”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60212)   
 
Posted on _April 8, 2014 9:13  am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60212)  
by  _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   

 
_Harvard University Press blog_ 
(http://harvardpress.typepad.com/hup_publicity/2014/04/mccutcheon-and-corruption-in-america-zephyr-teachout.html) : 
In _Corruption in America:  From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens 
United_ (http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674050402) ,  
Teachout reminds us that the particularly demanding notion of  corruption 
represented by that early gifts rule is central to  American law and democracy. 
This notion of corruption, she  explains, is not limited to the blatant bribes 
and explicit quid  pro quo to which Chief Justice Roberts referred in this 
week’s  _McCutcheon v.  FEC_ 
(http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/mccutcheon-v-federal-election-commission/)  ruling, and Justice Kennedy in 
_Citizens  United_ 
(http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/citizens-united-v-federal-election-commission/)  before that. The foundational American  
understanding of corruption encompassed emotional, internal,  psychological 
relationships in an effort to protect the morality  of interactions between 
official representatives of government  and private parties, foreign parties, or 
other  politicians.
 
 
(http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60212&title=“McCutcheon%20and%20Corruption%20in%20America”&description=) 


Posted  in _campaign finance_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10) , 
_Supreme Court_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29)   
_Marty Lederman Goes Into the Weeds on  Standing and Ripeness Issues in 
Susan B. Anthony False Speech  SCOTUS Case_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60210)  
 
Posted on _April 8, 2014 9:00  am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60210)  
by  _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)   

 
_A very helpful primer_ 
(http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/04/dewine-v-dewine-with-the-united-states-somewhere-in-between/) , at  SCOTUSBlog. 
 
 
(http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60210&title=Marty%20Lederman%20Goes%20Into%20the%20Weeds%20on%20Standing%20and%20
Ripeness%20Issues%20in%20Susan%20B.%20Anthony%20False%20Speech%20SCOTUS%20Ca
se&description=) 


Posted  in _campaigns_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59) , _Supreme Cour
t_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29)   


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Chancellor's Professor of Law and Political Science

UC Irvine School of Law

401 E. Peltason Dr., Suite 1000

Irvine, CA 92697-8000

949.824.3072 - office

949.824.0495 - fax

rhasen at law.uci.edu

http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/hasen/

http://electionlawblog.org




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Chancellor's Professor of Law and Political Science

UC Irvine School of Law

401 E. Peltason Dr., Suite 1000

Irvine, CA 92697-8000

949.824.3072 - office

949.824.0495 - fax

rhasen at law.uci.edu

http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/hasen/

http://electionlawblog.org

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